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SIR,

PAMPHLET was lately sent me, entitled, "A letter from the Right Honourable Sir R. W. to the Right Honourable W. P. Esq; occasioned by the late invectives on the King, her Majesty, and all the royal family." By these initial letters of our names, the world is to understand that you and I must be meant. Although the letter seems to require an answer, yet because it appears to be written rather in the style and manner used by some of your pensioners, than your own, I shall allow you the liberty to think the same of this answer, and leave the publick to determine which of the two actors can better personate their principals. That frigid and fustian way of haranguing wherewith your representer begins, continues, and ends his declamation, I shall leave to the criticks in eloquence and propriety to descant on; because it adds nothing to the weight of your accusations, nor will my  fence